United States History 2 Final

Who was Collector of the Port of New York before the Election of 1880?

Chester Arthur

Which of these does not belong?

A. Cochise

B. Crazy Horse

C. Colonel Custer

D. Little Big Horn

A. Cochise

While thinking they were safe, where were Black Kettle and his group killed by Colonel J.M. Chivington?

Sand Creek

Who was the Sioux Indian who led a massacre of 700 whites during the Civil War?

Little Crow

What was the name of the law that was passed in 1890 that essentially broke up monopolies?

Sherman Antitrust Act

What was the first political office Theodore Roosevelt won after returning from the Spanish-American War a war hero?

Governor of New York

Who assassinated McKinley?

Leon Czolgosz

What group was tasked with protecting the president after William McKinley was assassinated?

Secret Service

Which of these cannot be attributed to Theodore Roosevelt?

Senator

Who was the president of the US during WWI?

Woodrow Wilson

Which of these was not one of the reasons the US got involved in WWI?

A. Zimmerman Telegram

B. Bolshevik Revolution

C. Sinking of the Lusitania

D. the economy

B. Bolshevik Revolution

Who commanded the American Expeditionary Force during WWI?

John J. Pershing

Which of these was not one of the things women of the 1920's did to be rebellious?

A. wore pants

B. cut their har into a "bob"

C. smoked cigarettes

D. shortened their skirts

A. wore pants

Which of these was not one of the forms of entertainment from the 1930s discussed in class?

A. radio

B. magazines

C. movies

D. comic books

D. comic books

T/F The Homestead Act gave 160 acres of land to farmers if they would occupy and improve it for five years

true

T/F Denver was a boomtown

true

T/F James Garfield signed the Pendleton Act, ensuring reform of the political practice of patronage

false

T/F Chief Joseph was the Nez Perce leader who almost made it to the Canadian border

true

T/F The father of Marxism is Karl Marx

true

T/F Benjamin Harrison is the 1st US president to be elected to non-consecutive terms

false

T/F The King of England and the Kaiser of Germany during WWI were first cousins

true

T/F Woodrow Wilson said Americans should "remain impartial in thought as well as deed" at the beginning of WWI

true

T/F The sinking of the Lusitania marked the beginning of WWI

false

T/F The US came in on the side of the Triple Entente in WWI

true

T/F Americans' attitude towards charity began to change in the 1930's

true

Was Roscoe Conkling a Stalwart or a Half Breed?

Stalwart

Was Chester Arthur a Stalwart or a Half Breed?

Stalwart

Was James Garfield a Stalwart or a Half Breed?

Half Breed

Was Ulysses Grant a Stalwart or a Half Breed?

Stalwart

Was John Sherman a Stalwart or a Half Breed?

Half Breed

What industry was Andrew Carnegie involved in?

Steel

What industry was John D. Rockefeller involved in?

oil

What industry was J.P. Morgan involved in?

banking/finance

Which Titan was a Baptist Sunday School teacher?

John D. Rockefeller

Which Titan bought the steel empire built by another Titan?

J.P. Morgan

Which Titan had a true rags to riches story?

Andrew Carnegie

Who was a Sioux who terrorized workers on the Bozeman Trail?

Red Cloud

Who was Apache who was on the run for 15 years before being captured?

Geronimo

Who was a Sioux leader at Little Bighorn?

Sitting Bull

Who was Cheyenne who went to Fort Lyon seeking peace?

Black Kettle

Who was Paiute responsible for the Ghost Dance?

Wovoka

What was the name of the law (Act) Andrew Johnson broke that led to his impeachment?

tenure of office act

List the three main reasons people moved west:

farming

ranching

gold

List (in order) the steps to the cycle of a boomtown:

surface mines

underground mines

farmers/ranchers move in

Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes

What was the South given as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

the troops left

What issue separated the Stalwarts and the Half Breeds within the Republican Party in the 1880s?

patronage

Who did Roscoe Conkling want to be president in 1880?

Ulysses Grant

Who gave the nomination speech for John Sherman at the National Republican Convention in 1880?

Garfield

What is the step between capitalism and communism that usually sets up a dangerous infrastructure?

socialism

What was the nickname of the group within the Army that Theodore Roosevelt joined when he signed up to fight in the Spanish-American War?

The Rough Riders

When Theodore Roosevelt said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," what was the big stick he was referring to?

a big military

Who did Theodore Roosevelt want to succeed him as president (They were good friends at the time)?

Taft

What was the name of the political party founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912?

Progressive Party

What were the names of the two alliances formed before WWI that brought most of Europe into what could have been just a regional conflict but ended up being a world war?

Triple Entente

Triple Alliance

Who were the four major Allied powers (countries) that met at the Paris Peace Conference to end WWI?

Britain

US

France

Italy

What word describes the money a losing party in a war must pay to the winning side?

reparations

What was the name of the treaty the Allied powers negotiated with Germany?

Treaty of Versailles

What organization offered free representation to any teacher in Tennessee, who was willing to defy the new law that only creation could be taught?

ACLU

What was the nickname given to the people who moved from the Dust Bowl to California in search of work and better life?

Okies

What kind of market was the stock market experiencing in the run up to the crash in 1929?

speculative market

Besides Europe owing us money from WWI, name 3 causes of the Great Depression

lack of diversification

banks were losing money

Dust Bowl

What two men received the rank of "General of the Armies" (the equivalent of 6 stars)?

John J. Pershing

George Washington

What disease caused FDR's paralysis?

polio

T/F Hoover tried to help the farmers by raising agricultural tariffs on internationally grown produce

true

A group of farmers got together in 1932 and essentially formed a farmer's strike. What did they call their organization?

The Farmers' Holiday Association

What was the 1st thing FDR did after taking office to ease people's panic?

the bank holiday

T/F FDR repealed the Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages (Prohibition)

false

Farm Subsidies were organized through what organization?

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

What organization called for minimum wage, a 35-to-40-hour work wee, and the abolition of child labor?

National Recovery Administration

FDR's administration did several things to manipulate the dollar's value early in his administration. The most well-known and controversial of these manipulation was taking us off of what?

the gold standard

What organization was established during the New Deal to police the stock market?

Securities and Exchange Commission

What plan was the precursor for Social Security?

Townshend Plan

What was the name of Roosevelt's favorite relief project that took young men and had them do work in national parks, forests, and wilderness settings?

Civilian Conservation Corps

In FDR's first fireside chat, he told people it was "safer to keep your money in a reopened bank" than where?

under the mattress

Whose fault was it that the airplanes were "sitting like ducks on the runway" in the Philippines ten hours after Pearl Harbor?

MacArthur

Which of these territories did not fall to the Japanese in the weeks following the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Hawaii

What is the name of the island General Wainwright surrendered to the Japanese in May 1942 (located at the entrance to Manila Bay)?

Corregidor

What was the US's response to the Japanese for Pearl Harbor?

Doolittle Raid

Which battle is the largest amphibious landing in history?

Normandy

Which battle was the first battle in history where the naval vessels for each side did not see each other?

Coral Sea

Which ones of these does not belong?

A. Hitler

B. Stalin

C. Mussolini

D. Hirohito

B. Stalin

Which conference was the one that Stalin first attended?

Tehran

How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

6 million

What does the word "holocaust" literally mean?

sacrifice of fire

completely burnt

T/F Germany and Italy invaded Poland at the beginning of WWII

false

T/F MAGIC was the code word used for the operation to crack the Japanese code early in the war in the Pacific

true

T/F The US would crack enough of the code to be prepared when the Japanese attacked Midway

true

T/F Churchill was disappointed when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

false

T/F Hitler's two strategic mistakes were declaring war on the US and invading Russia

true

T/F The Japanese first used kamikaze planes at Leyte Gulf

true

T/F The feint used by the Allies to convince Hitler that they were coming to Calais instead of Normandy did not work

false

T/F The last German offensive of the war was at the Battle of the Bulge

true

T/F FDR said, "this was their finest hour."

false

What was the organization where young men worked in national parks, forests, and wilderness settings?

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

What organization organized the farmer's strike?

Farmer's Holiday Association

What organization policed the stock market?

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

What organization made minimum wages, 35-40 hours work week, and abolished child labor?

NRA (National Recovery Administration)

What organization had farm subsidies?

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)

What country was Hitler from?

Germany